Towel-holder.



R. T. FINUCAN.

TOWEL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 8. I91].

1 ,285,657. Patented Nov. 26, 1918,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RAY '1. FINUCAN, OF MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN.

TOWEL-HOLDER.

1,285,657. Specification of Letters Patent Patented Nov. 26, 1918. Application filed October 8, 1917. Serial No. 195,410.

To all whom it may concern: grip the towel in the manner shown in Fig. Be it known that I, RAY T. FINUOAN, a 1, portions of the towel being passed becitizen of the United States, and a resident tween the gripping jaws and the shank. 40

of Marshfield, in the county of Wood and It will be noticed that the jaws 6 are State of Wisconsin, have made certain new curved, and they are arranged with their and useful Improvements in Towel-Holders, convex edges inward. The free end of each of which the following is a specification. extremity of the wire is bent to form an eye My invention is an improvement in towel and the clamp or rip is connected to the 45 holders and has for its object to provide a bracket by means of a 0011 Sprlng 8. This 10 device of the character specified which will spring as shown engages at one end the eye firmly and releasably grip the towel, and 1 of the bracket and at the other the connecwhich is connected b resilient mechanism to t1on between the two portions of the shank. a fixed support, in order that the towel may In order to limit the extension of the 50 be held, when not in use, clear from the spring a flexible member 9, as for instance floor or which may be withdrawn some disa cord, is connected at one end to the eye 1, tance from the support when in use. and at the other to the connection between In the drawings: the portions of the shank. The said flexible Figure 1 is a side view showing the immember 9 is of such length that it will per- 55 proved holder in use with the parts in one mit the towel 10 to be withdrawn a sulfiposition. cient distance from the bracket and to be re- Fig. 2 is a similar view with the parts in turned to normal position when the said another position. towel is released.

In the present embodiment of the inven- -I claim 60 tion a bracket is provided formed from wire, A towel holder comprising a spring havbent upon itself to form an eye 1 and a pair ing at one end a grip for engaging the towel, of diverging arms 2 each of which is prothe grip being formed from wire doubled vided at the end remote from the eye 1 with upon itself to form a shank, the ends of the an eye 3 which is adapted to receive a screw wire being bent backward alongside the 65 4 or the like, to connect the bracket to a shank at opposite sides thereof and in spaced fixed support, as for instance, a wall. relation at their ends, said ends being curved A grip or clamp for the towel is also proand the convexity of the curve being toward vided, said grip or clamp being formed from the shank. wire doubled upon itself to form a shank 5.

and the extremities of the wire are bent RAY FINUGAN' back u on the shank and on opposite sides Witnesses:

thereof to form gripping jaws 6. FRANK VAUGHN, These jaws 6 cooperate with the shank to J. P. OCONNELL.

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